Associations to the word «Counterrevolution»

Wiktionary

COUNTERREVOLUTION, noun. A revolution aiming to reverse the political or social changes instigated by a previous revolution.

Dictionary definition

COUNTERREVOLUTION, noun. A revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope